Lukashenko: justifying people’s trust is most difficult for person
Speaking at the Kupala Night Festival (Alexandria Gathers Friends), President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko shared some of his thoughts with Belarusians and guests of the holiday
In particular, Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that July is always a difficult time for the President, because there are a lot of mass events. Moreover, there was an additional burden connected with his working visit to Kazakhstan – located four thousand kilometres from Belarus.
“Returning home, I planned in advance that I should land here [in my small homeland] because there’s a lot of work to do in the east. From here I will work in the near future, watching how we prepare for the harvesting campaign. The harvest in the fields is like never before. I don’t remember such a good year like this for agrarians. So far, God has given us a wonderful crop. It’s going to be a tough job. I need to see how people here, in the eastern regions, will cope with this.”
Aleksandr Lukashenko admitted that after a huge load, stepping on the native land is like plunging into another world, “It’s a different world. People come to their roots, it’s better for them here, it’s easier here. Literally in a day people become healthy and strong. Just like before, when they walked on this land. People recover very quickly here. However, coming to you (and there are a lot of my fellow countrymen here, it’s no secret, who know everything about me, and sometimes even what I don’t know) is the most difficult thing for me. This is the hardest thing: to come to you and to speak in front of you, understanding that the people sitting in this amphitheatre think different things about me. It’s like a reproach on your part about whether I did everything I said and promised. I know you didn’t feel it. God forbid that you, having received from someone everything that you wanted, then fail to justify this trust. This is the hardest thing for a person. And when a Russian journalist asked me recently about the most difficult thing I told him: to justify people’s trust. It seemed that after three decades, it was time to somehow calm down. But nothing like that. And it all comes from here, from this land: to appreciate people, to give them happiness, to do everything so that they just don’t think badly of you.”
